GOP Plan To Decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security Advances In House

[skews13]

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Senate will not pass it even by simple majority.

Four senators will desert the GOP in the vote.

 

[initforme]

It won't happen....it's political suicide. Grabbing the blanket under tens of millions who depend on it. The gop isn't dumb they know it.

 

[skews13]

The Senate will not pass it even by simple majority.

Four senators will desert the GOP in the vote.

When the dems get the house back, they need to immediately pass a budget with " $4 Trillion in mandatory program funding for CFPB, EPA, education, healthcare, and stimulus " requiring only a simple majority reconciliation vote, and then put pressure on enough Republicans in the Senate to get it passed and put in front of Trump.

Language in the bill requires the tax cut scam to go away, and be raised on the upper 1%, including eliminating the income cap on Social Security contribution taxes, and raising the capital gains tax to 30% on investment accounts over $5 million.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Won’t happen, but it’s a nice thought

 

[Papageorgio]

Won’t happen.

 

[initforme]

It sure is a nice thought to hurt those who paid into it. Thankfully the majority of voters are smart enough to reject the notion.

 

[initforme]

To let the uber wealthy cut everything for the masses doesn't bode well for the country. It would be an upheaval of major proportions.

 

[amethyst]

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

Seriously? You would use a daily kos article.
Won't bother reading it.

 

[easyt65]

Yay - more fear-mongering from the left.

On one hand they bash the Republicans for not getting anything done, and then they declare they're going to bring about Armageddon by all the things they are going to accomplish / bring about.

Which is it, snowflakes

Bwuhahahaha...

 

[JakeStarkey]

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

Seriously? You would use a daily kos article.
Won't bother reading it.

infowars, zerohedge, breitbart?

 

[JBond]

The Senate will not pass it even by simple majority.

Four senators will desert the GOP in the vote.

When the dems get the house back, they need to immediately pass a budget with " $4 Trillion in mandatory program funding for CFPB, EPA, education, healthcare, and stimulus " requiring only a simple majority reconciliation vote, and then put pressure on enough Republicans in the Senate to get it passed and put in front of Trump.

Language in the bill requires the tax cut scam to go away, and be raised on the upper 1%, including eliminating the income cap on Social Security contribution taxes, and raising the capital gains tax to 30% on investment accounts over $5 million.

Lol. You greedy losers are great at spending other people's money. 4 trillion in mandatory spending? Fucking absolutely nuts.

Inconsistent morons. You idiots are the ones that slashed Medicare to fund the failed Obamacare. Stay away from our money. You have no idea what the hell you are doing.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Cut DOD by 50% over ten years.

Up SS to collection on the first 500,000, install means testing.

No problem.

 

[JBond]

Cut DOD by 50% over ten years.

Up SS to collection on the first 500,000, install means testing.

No problem.

I could get with some of that.

 

[Papageorgio]

On Tuesday, House Republicans released their budget for 2019, along with a malignant plan to force cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare this year. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee passed that budget, preparing it to go to the floor.

They would cut the deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years largely by slashing mandatory and automatic spending programs. Like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They'd take $5.4 trillion from these programs, including $1 trillion from Medicaid and $537 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. Another $5 billion would come from other healthcare programs. They'd also cut $4 billion from Social Security.

This budget isn't binding, even if the full House passes it. That's the good news. Here's the bad: they include broad reconciliation instructions that require $302 billion in mandatory program spending cuts, "among the highest such request in two decades." The reconciliation instructions are what allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster. This is where it gets dangerous, because it sets up a sneak attack on Medicare and Medicaid in the lame duck session, after the election.

Even if Republicans lose their majority in the election, they'll retain it until January when the new Congress is sworn in. That gives them almost two months to do untold damage to these programs. Once the election is done, they don't have anything to lose anymore. If they keep their majorities, they'll do it in victory. If they lose, they'll do it out of spite.

In our favor, they are so loudly projecting this as their plan that it makes it easier to defeat the budget now, before it goes to the full floor and certainly before it goes to the Senate. That's how we stop it. Call 202-224-3121 to tell your representative to vote against this budget.


Republican budget plan to decimate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security advances in House

Daily Kos? Lol! I’m not going to waste my time reading, if you have a real legitimate news site let us know.

 

[whitehall]

Same hysterical rhetoric by the left with every republican budget. Don't they understand that people are laughing?

 

[initforme]

If they actually cut any of these programs that know voters will send them out right now.

 

[Norman]

They are the worst policies ever put into books. The way democrats prey on children...

Should have been changed a long time ago.


It really is illuminating to see the face of kids when they are told that Democrats have put 150 trillion USD worth of debt on their backs through these programs. When they are told that it was all so that they could provide free services to illegal aliens, the faces seem far worse than the children in those cages that we are indeed putting before American children.

 

[amethyst]

I see lots of articles on this Medicare cut, but no reputable article on social security cuts for the elderly.

From the vox site:

• A 7.1 percent cut to Medicare by 2028, due to reforms meant to cut payments to providers and reduce wasteful treatment without limiting access to health care. The Affordable Care Act in 2010 included many similar provisions with related goals.
• A 22.5 percent cut to Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies by 2028, through repealing and replacing Obamacare.
• A 27.4 percent cut to SNAP (food stamps))

 

[initforme]

Cutting these programs for American citizens would be cause a massive uproar no politician could handle. This means people have less access to health care and retiring this taking a major huge dent out of america's greatness.